Video for the AS* PAPANGUS Performance Berlin

our carnival, our body, our fight

Fatima - Mizgina - Natalia - Dami - Jahia - Katia - Pamela - Natascha - Thais - Bruna:

10 women* came together on a Friday evening in May, not knowing what to expect, but believing in a common space - a community of women* who fight, demand, love and share. They opened up and let others take part in their lives: that they celebrate themselves. That they honor their freedom. That they are the pillars of mutual resilience. That they are mightier than a trampled flower. That the streets belong to them and yet they have to become safer. That they recognize their beings as they are. that they are here. Less than twenty hours after they first met, they were on the street together. With the papangu mask on their heads, they danced to the sounds produced by the instruments in their hands. They didn't have to make themselves vulnerable. Because they were together. The documentation for the performance is now online here.

AS* PAPANGUS

AS* PAPANGUS critically engages with the colonial structure of carnival, vigilantly confronting the oppressive gaze and not allowing the exploitation of queer, racialized, women's*, disabled and structurally oppressed bodies. Papangu women* do not take to the streets to be consumed, but to celebrate themselves.

AS* PAPANGUS opens the first chapter of Oyoun's curatorial focus Mightier than a Trampled Flower, which focuses on the lives of women* in wars in a decolonial context and deconstructs the canonical narratives of women* in war.

 

Artistic Director: Bruna Amaro

curator: Dami Choi (Oyoun)

Performers: Pamela Bassi, Natalia Aly, Mizgina Rengin, Mayara Teston Barrios, Katia Akemi, Jarita Freydank, Jahia, Fatima Ismayilova

Fabric installation in the stairwell: Yuki Kojima 
Video: Thais Nepomuceno
Photo: © Natasha Gass 

Produced by Oyoun Berlin with kind support from Goethe Institute Sao Paulo.

Movements

Video for the AS* PAPANGUS Performance Berlin

10 women* came together on a Friday evening in May, not knowing what to expect, but believing in a common space - a community of women* who fight, demand, love and share. The documentation for the performance is now online here.
Pictures

AS* PAPANGUS in Berlin

After the Afro-Brazilian artist Bruna Amaro had already organized a carnival in its most queer*feminist and decolonial form with more than 50 women* in São Paulo, she and seven Berliners marched through the streets of Neukölln almost a month later to protest against the to fight against the objectification of marginalized bodies.

AS* PAPANGUS

AS* PAPANGUS critically engages with the colonial structure of carnival, vigilantly confronting the oppressive gaze and not allowing the exploitation of queer, racialized, women's*, disabled and structurally oppressed bodies.
MTF_FB

Mightier than a Trampled Flower

Mightier than a Trampled Flower is a testimony for women* in wars against marginalizing historiography.

#AS* PAPANGUS: Open call for women* in Berlin

We are looking for 10 women* in Berlin who would like to take part in the AS* PAPANGUS street performance on May 7th. AS* PAPANGUS by Bruna Amaro is a celebration by and for women* - it's about our lives, our struggles to survive, our fight against the many facets of structural oppression in our society.
AS* PAPANGUS square
Movements

AS* PAPANGUS

AS* PAPANGUS is a carnival for, by and with women* that does not objectify marginalized bodies. In AS* PAPANGUS, the Afro-Brazilian artist Bruna Amaro performs a carnival in its most queer*feminist and decolonial form with over 50 women* in São Paulo and Berlin.

Bruna Amaro

Bruna Amaro is an Afro-Brazilian artist, performer, educator, researcher and percussionist based in São Paulo, Brazil.

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AS* PAPANGUS, Bruna Amaro, Mightier than a Trampled Flower